Reviews: “Singlejack Solidarity” teaches valuable lessons for the working class
Patrick McGuire's review of Stan Weir's book, Singlejack Solidarity.
A Leninist vanguard party dying in a foreign land: 1956: the fading revolution
Part of an apparently unfinished work on the "vanguard party" experience, Stan Weir writes about a weekend with Max Shachtman, as the Hungarian Revolution was happening.
Stan Weir's oral history of the 1946 Oakland general strike
This is the transcription of a 1990 interview with Stan Weir for the Virtual Aural/Oral History Archive at California State University Long Beach (the audio is available here interview #3, section "3 of 9 items" ). In this segment Stan talks about his involvement in the 1946 Oakland General Strike.
Effects of automation in the lives of longshoremen
Submitted by IDP on Oct 23 2012 06:16
This chapter in Stan Weir's Singlejack Solidarity tells the history of how, from the victory in the 1934 General Strike through the first Mechanization & Modernization (M&M) Agreement in 1961, longshore workers in San Francisco had 27 years of near-total control of the labor process on the waterfront in the "largest, longest, and most successful formal experiment in workers' control ever conducted in the United States."
For a new workerism: Glaberman, Weir and Lynd
Alex Erikson reviews “Punching Out” by Marty Glaberman, “Singlejack Solidarity” by Stan Weir, and “Wobblies and Zapatistas” by Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic.
I Am Lonely - Stan Weir
Written around 1981, Stan Weir on feeling isolated.
American labor on the defensive: A 1940’s odyssey - Stan Weir
Submitted by Juan Conatz on May 27 2012 08:39
An article by Stan Weir surveying the effects World War II and the post-war years had on CIO unions and the American working class.
Work in America: encounters on the job - Stan Weir
Some work stories from Stan Weir, a socialist who worked a variety of manual labor jobs during the 1950s-1970s.
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